FIBA World Cup: Dalung advises D’Tigress to compete clean

Minister of Youths and Sports Solomon Dalung on Thursday, advised the D’Tigress to compete “clean and fair“ at the 2018 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain.

Dalung gave the advice in Abuja at a farewell reception in honour of the D’Tigress, as the team prepares to depart for Turkey for friendly matches ahead of the World Cup in Spain.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Nigerian senior women’s national team, D’Tigress will play in Group B along side with Australia, Argentina and Turkey as the competition dunks off in Sept. 22.

According to Dalung, the team is one of the teams the country is hopeful and satisfied with their outing and performance.

“It is a compact team and patriotic and determines at every time to make the country proud at every time.

“So as they move out from their trainings and the unity amongst them, the organisational capacity, we are indeed hopeful that the team will go a long way in their outing in Spain.
“This administration has a principle and that is, that we believe that anything that we are going to gain should be very clean.

“Meaning that there should be no cutting of corners, as young people, they need to be guided right.
“We need to make them resist the temptation of thinking that in their zeal to make their country proud, they can take prohibited substances.